# Latest **URL:** https://community.convox.com/latest.md [Latest](https://community.convox.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.convox.com/categories.md) --- ## [Migrating from an Amazon Linux 2 to an Amazon Linux 2023 Amazon ECS-optimized AMI](https://community.convox.com/t/migrating-from-an-amazon-linux-2-to-an-amazon-linux-2023-amazon-ecs-optimized-ami/982)
**Author:** [@eravelo](https://community.convox.com/u/eravelo)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2026, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/migrating-from-an-amazon-linux-2-to-an-amazon-linux-2023-amazon-ecs-optimized-ami/982 "2026-07-07T14:44:23Z")
Hello Convox community, Is there a plan for a V2 Rack release to address this AWS announcement? Following Amazon Linux, Amazon ECS ends standard support for Amazon Linux 2 Amazon ECS-optimized AMIs effective June 30, … --- ## [How to close account](https://community.convox.com/t/how-to-close-account/984)
**Author:** [@jacob.whitver](https://community.convox.com/u/jacob.whitver)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2026, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/how-to-close-account/984 "2026-06-16T18:53:16Z")
We no longer wish to use Convox and have deprovisioned all resources associated to our AWS Account. How am I able to close my account and remove my CC from your systems? --- ## [Feature Request: A separate set of env variables marked as secrets that get masked in CLI output](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-a-separate-set-of-env-variables-marked-as-secrets-that-get-masked-in-cli-output/978)
**Author:** [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2026, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-a-separate-set-of-env-variables-marked-as-secrets-that-get-masked-in-cli-output/978 "2026-04-18T21:02:18Z")
Hello, I have a feature request that would make my usage of the CLI more secure. When I run convox env, it’s always concerning to see all our passwords and API tokens logged in plain text. I would like to propose that th… --- ## [Amazon ECS will discontinue support for short service Amazon Resource Names](https://community.convox.com/t/amazon-ecs-will-discontinue-support-for-short-service-amazon-resource-names/975)
**Author:** [@eravelo](https://community.convox.com/u/eravelo)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 7, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/amazon-ecs-will-discontinue-support-for-short-service-amazon-resource-names/975 "2025-07-07T08:42:27Z")
Hello Convox Community We recently received this notification from AWS: Starting April 4, 2026, Amazon ECS will discontinue support for short service Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and automatically migrate any ECS serv… --- ## [How to disable ECS availability zone rebalancing?](https://community.convox.com/t/how-to-disable-ecs-availability-zone-rebalancing/977)
**Author:** [@xtagon](https://community.convox.com/u/xtagon)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/how-to-disable-ecs-availability-zone-rebalancing/977 "2025-06-30T16:29:47Z")
AWS sent notice that they are going to enable AZ Rebalancing by default on ECS services on June 30, 2025. There is an option to set enableAvailabilityZoneRebalancing to false in order to opt an ECS service out of this. H… --- ## [Deploys broken after updating to 3.12.0](https://community.convox.com/t/deploys-broken-after-updating-to-3-12-0/913)
**Author:** [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/deploys-broken-after-updating-to-3-12-0/913 "2025-06-21T18:42:23Z")
Hello, I’m running into an authorization error after updating to 3.12.0 with the new buildkit for image building. I had to re-add my Docker Hub registry, and attempted to re-add the AWS ECR registry, but I’m getting a 4… --- ## [Unable to set rack params](https://community.convox.com/t/unable-to-set-rack-params/927)
**Author:** [@luke.mcmanus](https://community.convox.com/u/luke.mcmanus)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 7:03am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/unable-to-set-rack-params/927 "2025-06-21T07:03:17Z")
I’m trying to add a WhiteList rack param, however I’m getting this error: Updating parameters... ERROR: direct rack doesn't support update, make sure you are not using RACK\_URL environment variable I’ve tested this on … --- ## [Convox still using Node 16.x on AWS Lambda](https://community.convox.com/t/convox-still-using-node-16-x-on-aws-lambda/976)
**Author:** [@xtagon](https://community.convox.com/u/xtagon)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/convox-still-using-node-16-x-on-aws-lambda/976 "2025-06-04T21:11:27Z")
Hi, We recently updated our racks to use Node.js v20 as \<= 18 is deprecated. However, in our AWS account we still have two Lambda functions/apps that are stuck on Node v16, and we’re not sure how to update them, or real… --- ## [Best Way to Handle Environment Variables Across Multiple Racks?](https://community.convox.com/t/best-way-to-handle-environment-variables-across-multiple-racks/974)
**Author:** [@mathewjacob20](https://community.convox.com/u/mathewjacob20)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2025, 9:54am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/best-way-to-handle-environment-variables-across-multiple-racks/974 "2025-04-25T09:54:40Z")
Hi all, I’ve recently started managing multiple Convox racks for different environments (staging, production, etc.), and I’m running into a bit of a workflow challenge. I’m trying to figure out the cleanest and most eff… --- ## [Documentation Improvements](https://community.convox.com/t/documentation-improvements/634)
**Author:** [@ed\_convox](https://community.convox.com/u/ed_convox)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2025, 8:08am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/documentation-improvements/634 "2025-03-20T08:08:24Z")
This is a thread to capture any feedback on areas you think the documentation site (https://docs.convox.com/) is lacking, things you spot that are out of date or confusing, or entirely new docs that deserve to be created… --- ## [CLI operations fail w/deployment keys](https://community.convox.com/t/cli-operations-fail-w-deployment-keys/966)
**Author:** [@nathan](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/cli-operations-fail-w-deployment-keys/966 "2025-03-11T18:04:41Z")
We started seeing an authentication failure error today when trying to authenticate via CONVOX\_PASSWORD. ERROR: authentication failed I’ve regenerated the deploy key we’re using but that didn’t make a difference. Has s… --- ## [Verify that you have permission to create service linked role](https://community.convox.com/t/verify-that-you-have-permission-to-create-service-linked-role/961)
**Author:** [@rhysawilliams2010](https://community.convox.com/u/rhysawilliams2010)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/verify-that-you-have-permission-to-create-service-linked-role/961 "2025-02-28T00:01:54Z")
I had an error when attempting to create a new rds-postgres resource: Verify that you have permission to create service linked role. To resolve the issue I had to manually update the “api-rds-provisioner” inline policy… --- ## [Making service available internally and externally](https://community.convox.com/t/making-service-available-internally-and-externally/810)
**Author:** [@rhys](https://community.convox.com/u/rhys)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/making-service-available-internally-and-externally/810 "2025-02-26T19:28:36Z")
Hello, I have a question related to DNS search suffixes for non-internal services (which remains unanswered). I would like to make a faktory service available internally on port 7419 for a tcp connection from another w… --- ## [ERROR: You have exceeded your Free organization's monthly assigned rate limit for this request](https://community.convox.com/t/error-you-have-exceeded-your-free-organizations-monthly-assigned-rate-limit-for-this-request/963)
**Author:** [@rhysawilliams2010](https://community.convox.com/u/rhysawilliams2010)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/error-you-have-exceeded-your-free-organizations-monthly-assigned-rate-limit-for-this-request/963 "2025-02-26T00:55:34Z")
Hello, I am getting this error: ERROR: You have exceeded your Free organization’s monthly assigned rate limit for this request I’ve not come across this before. I’ve only created 13 builds in the last month which seem… --- ## [Convox Build Instance Documentation](https://community.convox.com/t/convox-build-instance-documentation/948)
**Author:** [@cap](https://community.convox.com/u/cap)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/convox-build-instance-documentation/948 "2025-02-24T21:12:13Z")
Hi all, I’ve got a build instance on AWS that I’d like to replace, but I can’t seem to find the documentation on build instances anymore. Does anyone have a link to the documentation? Thanks! --- ## [Upgrading rack destroyed it](https://community.convox.com/t/upgrading-rack-destroyed-it/959)
**Author:** [@tech](https://community.convox.com/u/tech)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/upgrading-rack-destroyed-it/959 "2025-02-24T20:41:50Z")
We upgraded from rack 20220427210019 to 20241112202208 and the rack is completely unreachable but the web app is still running. New ec2 instances were created by the rack upgrade, but now all convox commands (except conv… --- ## [DNS search suffixes for non-internal services](https://community.convox.com/t/dns-search-suffixes-for-non-internal-services/701)
**Author:** [@julian](https://community.convox.com/u/julian)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/dns-search-suffixes-for-non-internal-services/701 "2025-02-24T20:07:30Z")
It seems from the documentation and some experimentation that the DNS shortcuts for peer services, e.g. auth.myapp.convox.local, auth.myapp, auth are only set if the service is internal: true. Is this true, and if so, i… --- ## [Feature Request: Access a service both locally and via public load balancer](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-access-a-service-both-locally-and-via-public-load-balancer/960)
**Author:** [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-access-a-service-both-locally-and-via-public-load-balancer/960 "2025-02-22T07:58:48Z")
I’ve been poring over the documentation and trying to figure out how to do this, but it looks like services can only be internal or publicly exposed, but not both. I have a web service that is currently publicly accessib… --- ## [awsEfs mount for MQTT](https://community.convox.com/t/awsefs-mount-for-mqtt/962)
**Author:** [@rhysawilliams2010](https://community.convox.com/u/rhysawilliams2010)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/awsefs-mount-for-mqtt/962 "2025-02-21T17:37:16Z")
Hello, I am attempting to set up an MQTT cluster but I have a couple of problems. version: '3' resources: balancers: custom: service: mqtt ports: 1883: 1883 9001: 9001 services: mqtt: image… --- ## [Tmpfs support](https://community.convox.com/t/tmpfs-support/685)
**Author:** [@stefano](https://community.convox.com/u/stefano)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 15, 2025, 9:21am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/tmpfs-support/685 "2025-01-15T09:21:18Z")
Hello, tmpfs is a way to have an in-memory filesystem available to the container, so that the application can work on temporary files very fast. In our case, we need this to work on temporary SQLite database, that need… --- ## [V3 - Enable docker layer caching using --cache-from](https://community.convox.com/t/v3-enable-docker-layer-caching-using-cache-from/870)
**Author:** [@rhys](https://community.convox.com/u/rhys)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 12, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/v3-enable-docker-layer-caching-using-cache-from/870 "2024-12-12T21:04:03Z")
Please could you make it so that we get better docker layer caching when building services by enabling external caching from existing images in ECR? --- ## [Convox commands unresponsive (checked version)](https://community.convox.com/t/convox-commands-unresponsive-checked-version/958)
**Author:** [@mvpl](https://community.convox.com/u/mvpl)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 9:58am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/convox-commands-unresponsive-checked-version/958 "2024-12-03T09:58:37Z")
Hello team, as per morning we loosed possibility to use cli, commands hanging… we tried update cli and reauthenticate without success, apps are working but we cannod do anything with that @Nick-Convox can you check ? --- ## [Cannot rotate rack access?](https://community.convox.com/t/cannot-rotate-rack-access/957)
**Author:** [@phuongnd08](https://community.convox.com/u/phuongnd08)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2024, 7:38am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/cannot-rotate-rack-access/957 "2024-10-31T07:38:47Z")
Getting error when running convox rack access key rotate Output: ERROR: 0 args required Look like the command is removed? --- ## [Feature request: ARM support (for AWS Graviton instances, etc.)](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-arm-support-for-aws-graviton-instances-etc/956)
**Author:** [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 2, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/feature-request-arm-support-for-aws-graviton-instances-etc/956 "2024-10-02T23:10:20Z")
Is it possible to run a Convox rack on ARM instances? We have a new customer who is running a k8s cluster on AWS Graviton instances. They requested an ARM64 version of our on-premise Docker images. They reported that “c… --- ## [Has anyone restricted access to the rack API service? I would like to only allow access through a Tailscale VPN connection](https://community.convox.com/t/has-anyone-restricted-access-to-the-rack-api-service-i-would-like-to-only-allow-access-through-a-tailscale-vpn-connection/949)
**Author:** [@nathan.f77](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan.f77)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/has-anyone-restricted-access-to-the-rack-api-service-i-would-like-to-only-allow-access-through-a-tailscale-vpn-connection/949 "2024-09-23T12:14:01Z")
I would like to prevent public access to the API service and only allow access from the private network. I just set up a Tailscale subnet router service to access some private services that I’m running on render.com, an… --- ## [Why Am I Unable to See My Post?](https://community.convox.com/t/why-am-i-unable-to-see-my-post/952)
**Author:** [@jessyyywilliam](https://community.convox.com/u/jessyyywilliam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/why-am-i-unable-to-see-my-post/952 "2024-07-30T07:10:31Z")
Hello there, Recently I posted a thread: https://community.convox.com/t/looking-for-guidance-on-convox-optimisation-for-applications-with-high-traffic/950/1 I got a notification that left me disappointed as it shows… --- ## [Looking for Guidance on Convox Optimisation for Applications with High Traffic](https://community.convox.com/t/looking-for-guidance-on-convox-optimisation-for-applications-with-high-traffic/950)
**Author:** [@jessyyywilliam](https://community.convox.com/u/jessyyywilliam)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/looking-for-guidance-on-convox-optimisation-for-applications-with-high-traffic/950 "2024-07-29T18:39:15Z")
Hello Everyone :hugs:, I’m contacting you in order to ask for your opinion on how to best optimise Convox to manage apps with a lot of traffic. I’ve been using Convox for a while, and thus far, I’ve found its deployment… --- ## [Amazon ECS-Optimized Amazon Linux 2 AMIs moving to use Docker v25.0.3](https://community.convox.com/t/amazon-ecs-optimized-amazon-linux-2-amis-moving-to-use-docker-v25-0-3/947)
**Author:** [@eravelo](https://community.convox.com/u/eravelo)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/amazon-ecs-optimized-amazon-linux-2-amis-moving-to-use-docker-v25-0-3/947 "2024-07-29T13:54:23Z")
Hello there, Received this notification from AWS: We are contacting you about an upcoming change to the Docker version used in the Amazon ECS-Optimized AMIs based on Amazon Linux 2 (AL2). Amazon ECS-Optimized AL2 AMIs… --- ## [Cannot select channel for Slack integration](https://community.convox.com/t/cannot-select-channel-for-slack-integration/944)
**Author:** [@nathan](https://community.convox.com/u/nathan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/cannot-select-channel-for-slack-integration/944 "2024-04-04T15:49:03Z")
The Slack integration for release notifications seems to have stopped working for us at some point. I tried re-adding it in the Console, but don’t get a list of channels I can actually subscribe to; it just spins any sho… --- ## [Trying to close my account](https://community.convox.com/t/trying-to-close-my-account/943)
**Author:** [@alfredo.e.alvarez](https://community.convox.com/u/alfredo.e.alvarez)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/trying-to-close-my-account/943 "2024-03-31T14:57:57Z")
How do i close the account. Unable to do it via the web ui. [Next page](https://community.convox.com/latest.md?page=1)